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NYT Crossword — January 26, 2025

Sunday’s 21 × 21 puzzle, 140 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

65 clues

1"The weekend is almost here!"

5Pioneers of freeze-drying food

10Share from an illicit endeavor

14Polite term of address

18Lifted one's spirits?

20Riveting persona of W.W. II

21Frozen treat with a domed lid

23Place for a white picket fence and a mom-and-pop shop

25Aid for using Bluetooth

32Highly capable

37Water feature created by rising sea levels

38STEM part: Abbr.

40"What are the ___?"

47Awkward people to butt-dial, perhaps

48Circuit board device

51Vast, as an operation

53___ Collins, author of "The Hunger Games"

55Helen of "The Queen"

56Futon component

57Was transfixed by, in a way

59Glass ___, spaghettilike fish

62French aperitif

63Weapon with wires

68Justice Kagan

70Natural feature between México y Texas

71___Kosh B'gosh

73TV journalist Navarro

74Annual observance for breast cancer awareness

76Knee parts, in brief

78Auto mechanic's tool

80War room briefings, in military shorthand

81Gold Medal offering

83"Au contraire!"

84Cause of puddles in early spring, say

88Go a little one way or the other

90Gordon ___, engineer with a "law" predicting a doubling of transistors on microchips every two years

91Record label for the Backstreet Boys

92Tech company exec, for short

95Cause of some sleep issues

103Show listlessness

104"See above," in footnotes

105Got online, say

109"Conclave" actress Isabella

111See 107-Down

114Saber alternative

115Worst time for a double fault

116Approaches furtively

117"Over here!"

118Hydroelectric projects

119"White & ___" (2006 Weird Al Yankovic parody)

120Structure that's set on fire

Down

75 clues

1Network owned by Showtime

3One might start as a seed

4"Have no ___ of perfection — you'll never reach it": Salvador Dalí

6Without regard to privacy

7Temporary residence

8Largest public sch. in the U.S., by enrollment

9P.S.T. part: Abbr.

13Fair-hiring letters

14Storage devices made obsolete by MP3 players

16"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" author

19[aria-label] Circled letter + walking stick

20Kashmiri king

29[aria-label] Circled letter + map line

33Public house offering

34White House dog of the 1980s

35Helps, informally

38Part of an act

43Visible signs of maturity

44Got down to business, in a way

45___ Urquhart, co-host of the podcast "Morbid"

46[aria-label] Circled letter + cafeteria item

48Many a school chaperone

52Folk singer Guthrie

55Hip-hop's ___ Thee Stallion

57They're for suckers

58Meditative martial art

61Common word with or without an apostrophe

65Meaty pasta sauce

66Ridge in metalworking

67[aria-label] Circled letter + fabric choice

69Office folder?

72Vowel sound in "father"

77Audiophile's system

80What "fitz-" or "-ovic" mean, in names

82[aria-label] Circled letter + Superman feature

83Innocent sort

85"Chances ___ …"

89Modern prefix with anxiety

90Salt's companions

93Theseus' need in the Labyrinth

94In an uncouth manner

95Marketing worker, informally

96Credit, informally

97Prominent features of elephant seals

98Comedian Radner

99A perfect storm, e.g.

100Planet whose day is longer than its year

101[aria-label] Circled letter + Oven aid

106Extend one's military service

107[aria-label] Circled letter + Baked dessert

108Hard thing to find in a house of mirrors

110"Wee" fellow

111Channel with the onetime spinoff America's Store

112Suffix with emir

113S.F.-to-Napa dir.

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Stats & info

Sunday, Jan 26, 2025

21×21

Grid size

140

Total entries

82/359

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

10 ltrs

Longest entry

Themed

Sunday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 26, 2025

DaySunday

ThemeLetter Openers

ConstructorRich Proulx

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split65 across · 75 down

Longest entries

18ALifted one's spirits?10 ltrs 22ASee 19-Down10 ltrs 23APlace for a white picket fence and a mom-and-pop shop10 ltrs 51AVast, as an operation10 ltrs 81AGold Medal offering10 ltrs

Sunday is the big one, a 21 by 21 grid built around a named theme rather than raw difficulty. This grid has 82 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.